Stuck & Deserves It

Seriously, how the hell can you name yourself this? And you know the spelling is wrong because the correct one (along with several other variations) are taken. Disgusting.

Anyone who names themselves like that deserves to get stuck under the ramp!

2v2 Arena, “Ironman”

Last Saturday night I put together what I considered was a really good Wintergrasp, where I didn’t die and almost kind of had that aura of badass-ity. I was firing off crits as killing blows, taking down siege vehicles with a few hits and destroying any random Alliance that crossed me while doing it. When I said as much in the chat channel I share with friends from old games, one of which said I was highest damage on his Recount.

Not sure if this had anything to do with this, but following the battle I was asked in a random tell, “interested in doing 2’s with a holy pally?”

Arena play is something that I have been wanting to do, but admittingly only because of the rewards involved and that you cannot get a PvP weapon from Battlegrounds (which is BS). My brother in-game is a combat rogue and best friend is an enhancement shaman, so needless to say it wasn’t like a better composition was going to come along at any time soon.

The pally’s name is Rerollinc, and after going 8-2 Saturday night we followed it up by going 3-5 on Monday to end with a 517 rating for the week. It has been a lot of fun so far in figuring out our playstyles, but at this point I think we’re winning a lot of matches based on talent alone. For Monday I was having microphone problems which would’ve been our first time on Ventrilo, but I’m sure that will be remedied by the next time we play.

Back to Ironman though. On Sunday he asked me if I wanted to run some battlegrounds with him, where I figured out he has a warlock named Zugdot who is just sick. We played 2 Warsong’s, an Arathi Basin and an Eye of the Storm and only even came close to losing in the EotS, which was a final of 1600-1100ish. We were paired up with a feral-by-raid and resto-by-BG druid named Thrusting who is amazing in a support role, and honestly it didn’t matter who we were paired up with that night we were just going to win.

Naturally I didn’t think to grab screens except for a random one at the lumber mill in AB and of my really-did-nothing feat of running 3 flags back to the while hardly engaging in combat.

Argent Tournament Jousting

I finally created my first video using Fraps, but unfortunately it has virtually nothing to do with PvP. I tried to capture my play during a Wintergrasp but apparently my PC isn’t going to handle that, so I then tried to record myself killing a druid in Storm Peaks and I lost because I couldn’t move due to poor framerates (excuses, excuses).

So, until I find a fix or come up with a better setup – here’s the method I use every day running the Champion quests at the Argent Tournament.

First Begger

Honestly this is amazing, but I almost forgot these kind of people existed. At any rate, this was my first one last night.

…the Pilgrim

This title is easily one that I most definitely will never place above my head, but as has been the tradition here is the customary screen grab of my stats while wearing my PvP gear. I’ve had a few comments what my PvE stats are, but being as I could care less about those numbers just know that I have 2 pieces of level 232 gear and my dps is sitting at 3200.

Differences from Vikt the Hallowed most notable is the Edge of Ruin and Relentless Gladiator’s Dreadplate Gauntlets. I’ve gained 154 strength, 123 stamina, 460 attack power, 2.41 crit % and have increased my weapon damage by 363. Resilience has went up from 618 to 829.

A Non-Suck DK

I’ve searched long and wide for a DK that actually displayed ability in a PvP video with keybinds, good rotations and the ability to decipher a situation and address it accordingly. Meet Norian from Bladefist-EU, and really the only difference he has from me gear-wise is an arena rating high enough to score a Furious Greatsword last season.

Pay special attention to his interrupts, use of AE’s and his clutch use of Death Strike – he’s a guy that definitely understands his class.

Oh and the music sucks, I don’t care what the comments say.

STV Ganking = Sucked

I wasn’t able to get to STV until 3:20 yesterday for my weekly “Roast of the Coast” during the Fishing Extravaganza, but being that the event goes on from 2-4 it should be no problem, right?

Wrong. The above screenshot is the ONLY SINGLE ALLIANCE I found in 4 trips up and down the peninsula. Kudos to Rozlyne for sticking the event out in your attempt to justify my 12 minute flightpath from Ebon Hold.

OMG WOOD!

You’ve seen my numbers in BG’s and by now probably at least lend a little bit of credibility to me not completely sucking in PvP, but all that has been done with weapons significantly below the current face-rollers.

Well, imagine what I could do with one of these!

Totin’ the Rock

Just had to share my 2 games of Warsong Gulch yesterday, where I returned 5 out of 6 possible flags.

Normally I don’t run flags very often, but after grabbing the first one yesterday I passed it off in the tunnel because Heffalump, a 39k hit-pointed DK was running right behind me. While I can’t say why it wasn’t returned, it wasn’t, so the next time I grabbed the flag I capped it. Then again, and again – next game – again, then again. I’ve never really experienced anything like it – I would get the flag, kill 3 people on my way back with heals galore, and then cap it. In the second game I actually went over to kill the Alliance flag carrier, returned our flag and died, but someone else picked it up off the ground and ran it in – so my case for 6 was almost made.

Night Elf Mohawk Pt. 2

Ok so I was desperate to live out this mohawk thing for one more day, but while trying to gather small eggs to bake a chocolate cake last night (rare blue recipe from Dalaran dailies) I found him as I was running thru Mulgore presumably right outside the Tauren starting area. Not only does he give you the grenades needed to turn everyone within blast radius into a NE Mohawk (NOTE: great time to use them is the Wintergrasp Battlemaster), but he makes you admit to believing into essentially his computer skills on changing the game for the class as per the commercials.

No idea how long it will last, but some people are really having fun with it. I especially got a kick out of getting my mail in Orgrimmar yesterday and being greeted by this chick dancing on top of the mailbox – great stuff.